Barrow

BARROW, a tything, in the parish of Kingsbury-Episcopi, union of Langport, E. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. division of Somerset, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Ilminster; containing 242 inhabitants. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £245. A conical hill, in a great degree the work of art, was raised here to Ina, King of the West Saxons, who is said to have been buried at this place; near it is a mansion of considerable antiquity.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, 7th edition, published in 1848.